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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Oracle Autonomous Database

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/AOracle Autonomous Database provides a self-driving, self-securing, self-repairing cloud service that eliminate the overhead and human errors associated with traditional database administration. Oracle Autonomous Database takes care of configuration, tuning, backup, patching, encryption, scaling, and more.N/A

    Oracle Enterprise Manager

    Score7.1 out of 10
    N/AOracle’s Enterprise Manager is an on-premises monitoring and management tool. The console is designed primarily to manage other Oracle products, it but can integrate to manage non-Oracle components as well.N/A
    Pricing
    Oracle Autonomous DatabaseOracle Enterprise Manager
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Oracle Autonomous DatabaseOracle Enterprise Manager
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Oracle Autonomous DatabaseOracle Enterprise Manager
    Considered Both Products
    Oracle
    Chose Oracle Autonomous Database
    I would select Oracle Autonomous Database due to its complexity and because it is based on Exadata technology.
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    Oracle
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    98%
    Would buy again
    47 Answers
    100%
    Would buy again
    5 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    95%
    Delivers good value for the price
    39 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    5 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    98%
    Happy with the feature set
    47 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    5 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    97%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    34 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    93%
    Implementation went as expected
    41 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    5 Answers
    Features
    Oracle Autonomous DatabaseOracle Enterprise Manager
    Database Development
    Comparison of Database Development features of Oracle Autonomous Database and Oracle Enterprise Manager
    Feature
    Oracle Autonomous Database
    7.2
    24 Ratings
    17% below category average
    Oracle Enterprise Manager
    -
    Ratings
    Version control tools6.213 Ratings00 Ratings
    Test data generation5.714 Ratings00 Ratings
    Performance optimization tools8.224 Ratings00 Ratings
    Schema maintenance9.023 Ratings00 Ratings
    Database change management7.015 Ratings00 Ratings
    Database Administration
    Comparison of Database Administration features of Oracle Autonomous Database and Oracle Enterprise Manager
    Feature
    Oracle Autonomous Database
    8.3
    25 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Oracle Enterprise Manager
    -
    Ratings
    User management9.024 Ratings00 Ratings
    Database security9.124 Ratings00 Ratings
    Database status reporting9.025 Ratings00 Ratings
    Change management6.216 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Medium-sized Companies
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    Score8.6 out of 10
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    Score8.6 out of 10
    Enterprises
    DBeaver
    Score8.6 out of 10
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    Score8.6 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Oracle Autonomous DatabaseOracle Enterprise Manager
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.5
    (52 ratings)
    7.1
    (26 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.3
    (3 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Oracle Autonomous DatabaseOracle Enterprise Manager
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Oracle
    Pro - Stability. Does everything anyone could need. If it's not there it will be on the next update. There is plenty of support for it. It's been around for a long time and it's reliable. The support is well documented and has a great reputation. Cons - Errors have been found in the documentation provided by Oracle with guidelines, etc. Oracles salespeople have a reputation of being obnoxious and condescending.
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    Oracle
    OEM is very well suited for all Oracle products, especially Oracle databases and Exadata machines; even not Oracle hardware, it is very good and displaying high level details. OEM is not well suited for older hardware vendors like AIX, HP-UX, DEC/Digital, Microsoft (sql server). This is a big negative as most large companies have a heterogeneous environment with many different vendor hardware and (database) software products.
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    Pros
    Oracle
    • Robust - this product doesn't have a lot of downtime. It's less prone to errors than some other tools I've worked with.
    • Scalable - we can keep adding more things to it. We haven't hit any roadblocks when we've tried to do more with our database.
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    Oracle
    • Monitoring Templates: There are out of box monitoring templates for each target types, you can customize them or use them as it is.
    • Administrative Groups: This is a relatively new feature in OEM Cloud Control. This lets you create and manage your targets and monitoring templates smarter and with less re-work.
    • DB Monitoring: There are so many cool DB monitoring features and visual graphics, that it can be used by both DBA and functional people to see what's going on in the database.
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    Cons
    Oracle
    • There is no access to the physical host of the DB. This is expected from a managed DB. Everything must be done through the console or via API calls. This is a new learning curve for the DBAs.
    • Due to the lack of physical host access, certain features are not supported, such as Transportable tablespaces and Oracle LogMiner.
    • Certain special data types, (such as XMLType) are not allowed; be sure the app vendor certifies their product on this platform.
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    Oracle
    • Bugs. Every version we upgrade to has a number of bugs. Some stop us from rolling to production OEM (we have a sandbox OEM), some are simply annoying. If I could improve on one thing, it would be for better QA from oracle before releasing each version.
    • Flash. I'm told that they are moving from Flash to Jet in version 13.3 and beyond (we are on 13.2 currently). That change cannot come soon enough. The OEM pages load SO slowly due to Flash.
    • Hierarchy Groups. OEM allows five Hierarchy groups. A Hierarchy group allows a top down metric/rule roll out. However, they limit you to five. I'd like to see them open that up, so that we can have any number of custom groups.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Oracle
    Because it does exactly what we need: it enables us to manage our development and testing database environments in a quick and simple way without requiring support from a database administrators team.
    Incentivized
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    Oracle
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    Oracle
    The product is continuously evolving and new features are added frequently. Management options through the OCI (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure) console and through the command line and API are being enhanced frequently.
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    Oracle
    It's great! It does everything and anything you would want it to do. It can monitor things which doesn't comes out of the box by adding plug ins to it, for example, you can even monitor Oracle GoldenGate Replication by adding a plug-in to OEM Cloud Control.
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    Support Rating
    Oracle
    No answers on this topic
    Oracle
    I still rate OEM as a must-have tool for central management of Oracle fleet. The pros and cons of the product is prominent. Meanwhile, I also acknowledge that OEM was design about a decade ago. At that time, it did not have the landscape we have today, such as cloud, DEVOPS, machine learning, etc. I hope in future releases, the design will incorporate those features.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Oracle
    I found Oracle Autonomous Database very secure to store data and private information.I always feel secure with Oracle Autonomous Databases disaster recovery features.It is very effective to build applications for mobile and desktop devices lesser code using a low code development framework namely Oracle Application Express (ApEx).
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    Oracle
    Being an Oracle shop using Oracle Database and MySQL, management console from Oracle was a better choice than IBM or Microsoft even though we do use Microsoft Azure and storage/servers from IBM (on-prem).
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    Professional Services
    Oracle
    No answers on this topic
    Oracle
    I work with OEM SCP team. They are great.
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    Return on Investment
    Oracle
    • Oracle Autonomous Database has a wide range of warehouses, which is competent and of high performance.
    • The transactional processing power that Oracle Autonomous Database outlines are completely important and digital.
    • The efficiency of Oracle Autonomous Database data encryption fosters security measures, a form that demands more threat detectors.
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    Oracle
    • We are a 7x24 shop. Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control helps us meet that objective by proactively warning us before issues cause down time. Things like disk space, archive log issues or temporary table space issues.
    • Spreading the use of this tool outside of the DBA group has allowed us to not hire additional personnel for those teams. Over time, as folks have retired from our operations team, we are not replacing them. Instead we have used OEM Cloud Control to automate tasks.
    • We also now have the tools to measure up-time by using specific measurements inside of OEM. This allows us to report real numbers to management.
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    ScreenShots

    Oracle Autonomous Database Screenshots

    Screenshot of Oracle Autonomous Database is supported on Shared or Dedicated Exadata InfrastructureScreenshot of Oracle Autonomous Database supports workload-optimized cloud services for Data Warehouse, Transaction Processing,  JSON centric applicationsScreenshot of Oracle Autonomous Database supports  both License Included and Bring Your Own Licensing (BYOL) with  Yearly and Pay As You Go subscription pricingScreenshot of Oracle Autonomous Database provides built-in development  tools such as SQL Developer web, Performance Hub, APIs for data managementScreenshot of Oracle Autonomous Database provides native shell for API driven development